From jackoverfull@gmail.com Wed Feb 27 10:21:33 2013
Subject:Re: American news from KeyB

+2!

Love Tony's soloing and his left hand is just incredible.

To counter a bit the Joey bashing thread, I love how he choses and changes registers.

Il giorno 27/feb/2013, alle ore 19.07, jjmcs49 ha scritto:

> +1 on Tony Monaco and Dr. Smith.
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> The last time I saw Mr. DeFrancesco he was on his "I liked it so much I bought the company" tour with Diversi keyboards and Motion Sound amps. He was traveling with Pat Bianchi(?). It was like watching a Joey DeFrancesco tribute act along with a celebrity impersonator. I expected the announcer to say, "Welcome folks, tonight performing as Joey DeFrancesco I present, Mr. Joey DeFrancesco, also, occasionally impersonating Mr. DeFrancesco we have Mr. Pat Bianchi. The keyboard/amp combination sounded bad, it was like the sound waves were actually extremely rapid pulses. It hurt my ears. Mr. Bianchi usually played piano sounds on top of Mr. DeFrancesco's organ which I thought at the time was their way of covering over the lousy tone of the organ. Once in a while Mr. Bianchi would switch to the single manual Diversi and demonstrate that he could play just as fast.
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> I was only there for the second show and a lot of people were leaving as I arrived. After an hour I was about to leave when Mr. DeFrancesco announced he was going to do one more song and call it a night.
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> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Gary Brumm wrote:
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> > I agree, his overplaying gets monotonous to me as well. I much prefer Tony Monaco or Dr. Lonnie Smith in that style of Hammond playing. They seem to hold my interest and I find their playing much more creative. DeFrancisco is obviously a very talented guy but he seems to be "phoning it in" a lot of times and "showboating" at others. He does have those moments when he really shines though and I will never be anywhere close to his degree of talent.
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